Chapter 4: The Time

(Annie's POV)

The people who I learned were the 'Leaders' of the realm were prepping me for the coronation. I wasn't willing, but I went along with it so they wouldn't suspect that I was planning to get out.

It had been forty days. That was forty weeks on earth which was twelve weeks away from being a year in their time. That meant it was probably around the time of my birthday there, which meant around the time of my wedding anniversary.

I did the calculations and figured the exact date for those would be two days until my birthday, and three until the anniversary.

Sam and Gabi were most likely married and Dean and probably started to move on.

My dad hadn't been able to get through to Sam. He had tried and tried but there was to much on his mind. He couldn't find out what exactly was on his mine but they were big things.

So I was on my own. But only thirty eight more days and I would be free. Luckily, Latin was something I had to study for the coronation and I had been able to come up with a spell to open the portal. My dad had told me where I needed to go to do this to.

There were three silver gates surrounding the realm and one gold one. The gold one was the only one that let things out. The only problem was that it was heavily guarded.

But that wasn't going to stop me. I had checked, and my powers worked on these people. So I had also written a freezing spell to temporarily freeze the guards while I escaped.

I had it all planned out, but I had a while to go before I could do anything. So now all I could do was wait.

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(Gabi's POV)

(Almost a year later)

I had my final project to do for school and then I would be caught up. I had practically been a semester behind since the wedding and since Ellie. But now I was almost caught up and I would be so happy for that two week break I would get to take afterwards.

My teachers were all very understanding but I hated being so behind. I was in my room finishing my sketch when the door bell rang.

As soon as it dinged, she started to cry. I threw my head back and hit it against the wall by accident.

"Sam, can you get her? I will get the door!" I yelled. I heard him walk into her room so I knew that was a yes.

I got up and answered the door.

"Hey you two!" I said as I hugged Dean then John

Six months after Annie's disappearance Dean had gone back on the road with John. He wasn't happy. You could see the distress in his eyes. And in his spare time he still researched to try and find out anything about the realm that he could. But we had all come to the realization that getting Annie back was going to be near impossible.

It hurt, but it was the truth.

I knew why Dean was here though. Tomorrow was Annie's birthday. The days after that would have marked their first anniversary.

"Hey Gabi! Where is she?" John asked. I laughed.

"In her room, Sam has her." I told him. Dean smiled a little as John walked in.

"You know Dean; you are allowed to come in." I told him. He gave out a pitiful small laugh and walked inside.

"How's everything?" He asked.

"Good, busy but good. Sam and I both got time off of school and work for the next couple weeks so we can actually get to know our daughter instead of having to run off all the time." I told him.

It was sad but true. We didn't want to give up anything yet. Sam needed to finish school more then me. He only had about six more months until he got his law degree, and he didn't want me to give up my dreams either. Plus we wanted to give Ellie the best possible through her life.

By now it is probably obvious who Ellie was. She was our daughter. That day I had come home freaking out telling Sam that I had news, well that was it. We decided not to postpone the wedding any longer. I was miserable and not happy about it, but in the end it was all perfect.

The best part was we never fought over anything about her. Her name was the easiest thing ever. We wanted it to mean something about the people we loved and lost. We didn't want to name her Anastasia though. So we put a middle name and first name together. Elizabeth Mary Winchester.

It worked out quite well.

Back to now though… Dean was just standing there looking at me like he wanted to say something but couldn't.

"T-.." He started but couldn't finish it. Another thing about Dean was that he had newly built walls surrounding him.

He never talked about Annie, ever. For the first two to three months he would break down in tears but after that he was just stone cold. It was painful to see someone who used to have so much life in him seem so dead.

The Dean we all knew was taken away when Annie was. Sam had told me stuff about how he had gone back to the 'one night stand' kind of guy. But his sarcasm and arrogance was gone. He was just a wall who killed demons and slept at night. And none of us could stand it.

"I know Dean…" I said sadly. He closed his eyes and turned around.

"So where is this new kid? I haven't seen her in months." He said. I smiled and took him to Ellie's room.

When he was around her was about the only time he showed any emotion. But since he was on the road all the time he hadn't seen her since she was born which was three months ago.

I stood in the doorway watching the three Winchester boys be all mushy with my daughter and laughed at the sight. Who could have thought that three ghost busters could go weak in the knees with a baby? It amazed me.

I let them gawk over her and I stepped out onto the back balcony of our apartment and stared out into the sun as it set.

"Annie…" I whispered. "You should be here…" I let a tear fall down my face as the sun went all the way down.

"Happy birthday." I said to the air.

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(Dean's POV)

It had been almost a year. I hated myself, I hated everything. So I hunted again, killing anything that crossed my path.

For a while I blamed the good powers for taking Annie away, but then I realized after doing my research that it wasn't really their fault. It was that damn Enchantress Felicity who Annie had killed. She was the reason when you got right down to it.

Taking my anger out on evil hadn't really done anything but make me cold. Annie had asked me to move on. I tried, but it was just back to the old ways with women for me. I wasn't happy about it.

I missed her. Tomorrow was her birthday and I could still remember everything about the year before. The beach, the woods, everything.

Everyone still worried about me. But I shoved them off.

I wanted her back. But everyday I was having to wake up and face the fact that it may be impossible.

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(Annie's POV)

I hated it. The coronation was taking place on the same day I was supposed to escape. They had moved it up. This was not good.

There was also something else happening. Something only the leaders knew about. I tried to find out as much as possible but all I could get was that it was something bad.

I wanted to go home. I wanted everything to just reverse and send me my life back.

That's all I had wanted for a long time now. And it was killing me inside.

But now I had to worry about adjusting my plan to get out of the coronation. The only thing I could think of was to act like I was going to go through with it, but adjust my freezing spell so that I could freeze the entire realm temporarily to get to and open the portal.

And that was my only shot at getting out of here. Other wise I would have to wait another seventy eight days.

I was lying in my bed, replaying some of my memories with Dean. Mostly the woods last year on my birthday.

My birthday… Oh God… I was twenty four now. My life was passing straight before me and I couldn't do anything.

'Thirty two more days…' I told myself. But even so, that seemed like an enternity.

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(Gabi's POV)

"Are you ok?" Sam asked as he walked out on the balcony with me. I wiped the tear off my face.

"I just miss her." I told him honestly. He pulled me into his arms and kissed me on the top of the head.

"Me too." He said.

"Where's Ellie?" I asked. He laughed a little.

"Dad has her. I swear we have to get him out of here quick before he kidnaps her or something." He joked.

"That's his grandchild, his first one at that. What about Dean?" I replied.

"Ehh, I caught him giving her the boys are bad speech again. I tried to remind him that she is only 3 months old but does he ever listen?" Sam said.

With these three guys and me, raising this kid was going to be a piece of cake. It may be a small family, but the way they acted around her was different then they acted with everything else. It was almost humorous.

"How's your project?" He asked me.

"Almost done. I have to finish some outline sketching and then add color. But I have the summary done so it shouldn't take to much longer." I told him. "I have an interview with Chanel next week. They may want me to help design next year's winter line."

"What! That's huge news and you are just telling me now?" He exclaimed.

"Hey, I have had a lot on my mind. Plus it is a long shot that I will even get it. There are tons of designers out there who have finished school and worked before. I'm a rookie in a world full of pros." I told him.

"You'll do fine. Even if you don't get this one there are tons more out there and one day it will happen." He said comfortingly.

God I loved this guy.

"Yeah, I just hope that day is soon. I really don't want to be at school anymore…" I whined. He laughed at me.

"It will all be fine." He told me. And I believed him, just because I knew he was right. It would be fine. As long as I had him, it would be fine.